Me again. The project I'm working on is making a legacy (single language app) work in many languages. The issue I'm confronted with this week is "what...
... IIRC, in most OS there is some sort of API so you can query "which fonts has glyphs for language X?". It is not perfect (some fonts will "lie" about the...
Thanks. I will take a look. One additional piece of info I forgot to mention was this is a suite of browser based J2ee applications. Mostly JSP (struts)...
Hello, If anyone on the list is a freelance consultant, I am looking to staff 2 Sr. I18n Engineers comfortable with C++, MFC, or excel programming for a 4-12...
Dear friends, Thanks to all users for helping us build the English Spanish Translator Org community: http://www.english-spanish-translator.org/ If you are not...
Hi, Although I have read a lot about I18N, I still consider myself as new to this Topic. So far I have never developed anything using I18N, and find it hard...
Hello everyone, I'm new to this board and haven't found anything about PHP in the yahoogroups archives, so I'll post my question below. Does anyone have some...
Hi, I was reading through Andrea Vine's article, "Internationalizing Testing" (here: http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/des_dev/Intl_Testing.html). In this she...
Hi, Amarendra, Hope the following blog is helpful: http://blogs.sun.com/byuan/entry/i18n_l10n_test_guide_line There are two kind of i18n testing activities,...
Qingjiang (Brian) Yuan
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Hi Amarendra, Andrea's paper is an excellent introduction. Your message makes perfect sense. Like developers, QA engineers are trained to test software with...
... [...] Thanks Addison. Your reply has helped me put my thoughts straight. Also, the references you mention are an excellent read (I am wondering why Google...
Good afternoon, I have two urgent positions. One would be a permanent role, and another would be a contract role. If you are interested please send your...
Hello everybody, Since I am new to this group I am not quite so sure whether you have at any point in time discussed about any Web development tool that is ...
Hmm.... I'm not sure your question is quite clear. First, what do you mean by "Web development tool"? You list some technologies and each of them has specific...
I have a philosophical problem with Unicode. It treats separate writing systems as though they were merely additional groups of characters added onto one...
... How would your system handle multi-lingual text? For example, a document with Hebrew Arabic and Russian? -- Shoshannah Forbes http://www.xslf.com...
Adam - Just a hunch but I think you never wrote code during the pre-Unicode era. Perhaps others will fill in the details, but n the whole your plan has all...
When Unicode was in invented, there were groups in Japan opposing the idea of unification of Chinese-derived characters. Some even created multilingual OSes...
Kuro-san, What is the aim of such a system as TRON or what the original poster described? I think it is to preserve the identity of non-unified characters...
Hello Barry, I am not advocating TRON or any other such sysmtes. I merely wanted to tell that such experiments have been done without much market acceptance,...
Kuro-san - I agree - Unicode is definitely mainstream. Lately, when I talk with new folks about internationalization, they get a funny look in their eyes when...
I have a plan. Of course --- I don't know if it is a *good* plan -- but nonetheless I have a plan. Once the alternative standard to Unicode is all fleshed out,...
LISA Forum Asia: China Focus 12-15 March 2007 China Focus, The Globalization of China 2.0, is shaping up to be the most exciting Asian event yet, with...
Hi Zakasbanda, Java applications on the Web can use a variety of encodings for their HTML interface. Internally, all Java characters are Unicode UTF-16. This ...
Thanks Addison. The articles helped me a lot understanding whats going wrong. I was able to get most of the chars handled right by changing the JSPs and ...
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